Update: 1st detox bath, started walking on treadmill, lost my job and 1st LLMD appt next week.

Hi All! The above is in no particular order. Some updates in my life are coming. I hope nobody minds.

I don't even know how to tell you all that happened to me in the past few days with my boss and her parents. It was insane. I'm a personal assistant and also work with her children a little too. I started to write everything out and decided it didn't matter. I'm pretty sure I lost my job. I had to deal with so much these last few weeks while her parents were visiting from Hawaii. They're Korean and VERY intense. Their culture is different and they think because they are so much older than me (I'm 30) that they can behave however they want and it's my fault for their bad behavior.

So I've used these past few "work free" days to walk on treadmill and today I did my first detox bath. I actually feel slightly energized and lightened on the pain a little. Not sure if this is in my head or not, or I'm gonna suffer later, but we'll see. I'll do it again tomorrow. I didn't have any fresh ginger or stockings, so I did it with just the epsom salt and hydrogen peroxide. I then jumped in the shower to rinse off, no soap.

Some supplements I've also been taking:
Triple Omega (Fish, flaxseed, Safflower and Olive Oils ) Pills. I only take one a day for now
Cats Claw twice per day
One a day multivitamin
Magnesium Citrate 200 mg (working my way up, but have been going to the bathroom daily since adding)
Solgar probiodics beads..1 per day for now
Norco for pain 2 times per day
Benedryl (Diphen something or other) 2 per night to sleep
A Siggis yogurt per day if I have them in stock or can afford them LOL

Along with NO sugar, no processed foods, minimal to no dairy (except for a yogurt at times) some stevia, little to no carbohydrates except for some minimal fruits like organic berries blended with an almond milk at night, some grapefruit, lots of leafy veggies, minimal carrots, but some...and pork, chicken (going the abx hormone free veggie fed diet route as much as possible)

Anywhoo---Things have not been so fantastic. The stress I've experience with work has been insane. I handled myself very well for the most part, but did break down and cry a lot when I was accused of things that I did not do and bullied. I love those kids like they were my own. I have busted my *** for that family and now I feel I've been stabbed in the back. I was asked to apologize to the grandparents for doing nothing wrong, because they were old. WOW. I even agreed to it and now she's "thinking" about things for a few days. Whatever. I was dragging myself to work every day as it was, but I have no choice because we don't have any money. Especially now that I'm seeing my LLMD for the first time next week and everything will be out of pocket. Plus, the food routine at home with abx free meats, lots of wild caught fish, organic, expensive vitamins, etc.

I'm so lost. I have got to find a low stress way to make some $$.

I could continue and tell you exactly what happened at work, but I won't bore anybody. If you all only knew what I had to put up with you'd be like

I'll update and let you all know how my appt goes next week and I must say this diet I feel HAS helped my mind think a little clearer and has enabled me to be less anxious. Still by no means normal, but it's a slight improvement.

Yeah, Sleepless,

If your employers are willing to let their parents disrupt their home while they visit, it certainly isn't on you.

Hope you are able to find something quickly to replace the job.

It sounds like you are doing a lot of good things for yourself, well done! Keep up the good work.

Stay cool!

Trav--Minimal carrots because of the high sugar content. I do eat them. In fact, I'm munching on a few right now LOL.

acheivinggrace--Exactly. Although they were disrupting the home, the worst of it was, they were behaving very poorly and not being very nice to me. Claiming things like I didn't say hello to them the second they walked int he door from the airport and were upstairs in the bedroom. They were upset I didn't walk upstairs and say hello when I came in. I didn't, because I wasn't sure if they were undressing, or going to the bathroom, or whatever! They had JUST gotten there from a 12 hours flight from Hawaii. I thought it was polite of me to wait until they came downstairs, where I gave them BOTH a big hug hello. They are making issues up and my boss is buying in to them. She has to know she's wrong, but she's Korean and their culture is different (so she claims) and I am in the wrong according to them. The youngest child told me the grandmother yelled at her for hugging me goodbye too many times. The kids love me. I can't help that and I was not trying to "win" their affection over. I spend every day with these kids. I don't expect them to favor me over their grandparents and always encourage them to be as affectionate with them as possible. This is really baffling. I'm devastated as I LOVE these kids and the thought of not seeing them again really hurts me. Unfortunately for me right now, the only job I'll be able to get that will bring in the income I need to earn is probably something of a similar position, which will always be stressful. But hopefully, I can start over again and maybe a few less hours will do me some good. I make decent $$ and it will be hard for me to step down from that, but I need to take care of myself, much to my husband's dismay.

yogi--it really is very hard to walk away from children that you've bonded with. Especially girls. I have tried so hard not to be too close, but they weren't going to let that happen LOL. They are ALL girls and love to hug, kiss, play with me and "do girly things" Love them

Jessica, yeah..exactly. The sugar content. But don't worry..I still eat them. Just not a TON of them as I can't fathom feeding these nasty little spirochetes anything!

Yeah. I stopped eating bananas entirely. Grapefruit is OK in generous quantities according to Dr. Burrascano. I only eat fruit after a meal, never on an empty stomach, just as he suggests.

I haven't been able to give up on my almond milk, berry smoothie just yet. I add a little unsweetened cocoa powder which is packed with extra antioxidants and I have acai juice in the fridge. I'm hungry all the time now and actually packing on pounds surprisingly probably due to the high fat nut content in my diet. But I am ALWAYS hungry now.

First of all, I'm sorry to hear about your job! When things like that happen I always try to keep my fingers crossed and hope that somehow it's a blessing in disguise!

It's usually best to start pretty light with detoxing as you can't really know how your body is going to react - sometimes it can bring on a herx, which may be what's happening with you. I usually find that when I do baths, I feel much better right after, then worse, then better again, although I'm sure it's different with everyone. It's usually much more helpful cumulatively - keep up with it and you'll see more and more results and feel better and better!

Epsom salts can be pretty drying for the skin - I haven't tried it but I've read about putting oils in your bath as well for your skin. If my skin starts to get itchy from the baths I usually use some kind of healing lotion before bed and it gets better after a few nights.

It sounds like you're doing everything you can do - good for you! Keep up the good work and try not to let the stress get to you too much!

Sleepless - I found some little over drain covers at Amazon that allow you to fill the whole tub without using your foot to block the overfill drain. Here's a link to it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00314WHW6/ref=oh_o04_s00_i00_details

Sleepless, it does us no good to battle with the pain. I have read where the pain that people with Lyme live with is comparable to what post-op patients have - and they aren't trying to tough it out!!! We shouldn't either. When the pain gets really bad, our bodies attention comes off of healing. You really should talk with your LLMD about the amount of pain you are in.

Depending on where your pain is and what type of pain, there are things that you might be able to do at home. Lots of times, just by using a heating pad, my pain eases enough that I can function without having to take pain meds. Gentle easy exercise, like a short, easy walk or some gentle stretching might help as well.